I'm starting to question my RNG...

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tryhardgg wrote:

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Weißenberg wrote:

Together with some mates we tried to figure how many hours we actually played in PoE. With all chars on both accounts I brought to the endgame content (multiple 75-85 chars, a couple of 90s) I got around 2,000 hours. In that time I dropped:
- less than 10 x 5-links (including crafting);
- not a single 6-link (including crafting);
- 4 exalted orbs (not a single one in the last 4 months of playing and that despite a large number of hours put into farming);
- 7 divine orbs;
- not a single eternal orb;
- 2 or 3 items worth 1 exalted orb;
- only 1 item worth over 1 exalted orb (dropped in Domination!).

Are there people who are less lucky in this game?

Play the temp leagues , there you can make fortune be it via trading or drops in general .

The guy has a 4 next to his name, he is playing in temp league. That said, I think the OP is unlucky, especially in the "only 1 item worth over 1 exalted orb (dropped in Domination!)" portion. Play time has a lot of variables; how much time spent in town/chatting/trading, how fast do you farm, do you play with ppl that have iiq/iir, are you progressing up to high level maps or do you spend a lot of time playing in lower difficulties or stuck in act 3 etc.

Pretty "bad" RNG on my end too. I've been playing since CB (not sure how many hours).

I've had 4 exalts drop as well, and I haven't had one drop since before temp leagues were a thing.

From these, I bought a BoR and a Facebreaker before they went legacy. I've been trying to sell them recently but no luck there. Other than that, some nice rare gloves that I use on my characters that dropped while mapping, and a massive, massive amount of utterly trash uniques. Never had a GG unique drop for me.

thats nothing you all have good luck, I've played since closed beta and I've dropped only 1Ex, nothing worth over 1Ex on Unique drops and never had a 6l besides tabula or what a guildie gave me. You got nothing to cry about.

OP - Mediocre. Not the worst. A friend has only ever had 2 5 links dropped from him in the total game time he has played. He had to grind for currency to buy them...

This league only one has dropped for him. Total game time he has played, he has never made a 5 link. Only this league he has gotten good uniques and 1 exalt to drop.

Compared to me, I've given away multiple 5 links in random towns and sitting on multiple exalted rare items because I rarely trade. I can count all the trades on my hands this league. Made 6 5 linked chests. Compared to other players that have been running high level maps for much less time than I have, it's small potatoes. I don't understand how some people are insanely lucky or they are actually wizards or some shit. My understanding on wizardry is that anything that could happen, does happen with an obscene regularity especially getting the same 3 uniques that are 2+ exalts. I've had 8 exalts drop in this league for me. That's just time...

Best item dropped so far in 2 full temp leagues, (with some characters 60++) was shavronne's revelation.

First exalted orb dropped 1 week ago.

I know that feel too :(

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Ludvator wrote:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianFunction.html

this function shows "luck" distribution among players. on the very left there are couple of extremely unlucky players, on the right those extremely lucky, whilst mojority of players with average luck (slightly lucky, slightly unlucky) being in the middle

but noone can tell you whather you are in the left or right half, because we dont know what the average is.. You are probebly somewhere in the middle

edit: my stats are similar to yours, maybe slightly better, but I think Ive played more than you.

You're making a big assumption that luck is normally distributed.(which it more than likely is). however if you had the data to prove that you would also have the data to prove drop rates rather confidently. Which is something i would love to do if there was a way to track in game drops and get around 1K people to play for some amount of time(or amount of maps/levels) levels being the best bet since it is the only way to measure content you went threw(excluding EXP increasing items)

I usually progess through leveling pretty quick and focus on maps. In this challenge leagues I put my main focus on farming currency and can't really complain as I was able to farm enough alts to buy all the gear I needed (well, except a 6-link). Maybe it's just my perspective, but I've seen some of my friends/guildies rolling a 6-link with a fair amount on fusings (I never had a 6-link other than Tabula) or getting let's say one crazy good item per league. I'm not trying to compare me for the most lucky guys I know (have a casual friend who dropped an Alpha's, BoR and a freaking Drillneck in one week, with litterally 0% iir/iiq), I just feel more unlucky than an average core player (actually, does playing 4-5+/h day basically every day make me a core player?). I'm also not trying to bitch or cry I'm gonna quit, because it's RNG and there's nothing I can do about it. It'd be just so nice to actually drop a decent unique worth a couple of ex or to actually get a 6-link.

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Opiee wrote:

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Ludvator wrote:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianFunction.html

this function shows "luck" distribution among players. on the very left there are couple of extremely unlucky players, on the right those extremely lucky, whilst mojority of players with average luck (slightly lucky, slightly unlucky) being in the middle

but noone can tell you whather you are in the left or right half, because we dont know what the average is.. You are probebly somewhere in the middle

edit: my stats are similar to yours, maybe slightly better, but I think Ive played more than you.

You're making a big assumption that luck is normally distributed.(which it more than likely is). however if you had the data to prove that you would also have the data to prove drop rates rather confidently. Which is something i would love to do if there was a way to track in game drops and get around 1K people to play for some amount of time(or amount of maps/levels) levels being the best bet since it is the only way to measure content you went threw(excluding EXP increasing items)

I have no reason to believe that the "luck" is not normally distributed. It is based on set probabilities. If would have to be rigged..

If they told us all the info then we would have been able to calculate exact probabilities of everything -> thus be able to determine exactly the most efficient ways.. And my opinion is that it would not be too fun..

A few days ago I was mapping and playing with a friend. I got 2 ex drops within about two hours (one from strongbox, one from going back and doing a respec point quest). I also got a 3 dragons on the next map we played.

I've had a lot of 5L's drop for me, and have made maybe 4-5 by using fuses.

I've had 4 6L's drop for me, but they were all tabulas.

At one point I spent about 8 weeks grinding alts -> jewelers -> fusings then selling for ex. I used this to buy a Kaom's Heart (non leg). It helped I had an eternal that dropped in lunaris 3 for me here. I recently sold the Kaom's with some other ex I made selling uniques and a few drops to get my current 6L chest on my main. I also sold my alt art Three Dragons from a past race to a guy for 15 ex.

I haven't had much luck getting uniques to drop for me (I think best I've gotten are things like RoTP, Alpha's, 6 x Rainbowstrides, one BotR).

But generally the best ways to get currency are not to wait for the high value items to drop.

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Astealoth wrote:

I have played about 600 hours

I've found 2 white 6L as drops, one sold, one alch/chaos crafted that I wear now

I've found 6 drillnecks which has significantly funded my exploits, probably 85% of my entire wealth is from those, all sold for 10-12 ex

I've found one rainbowstride which I sold

I'm currently very poor because I spend them liberally on regrets for skill tweaks and GCPing my gems xD

I only play one character, 88 marauder in a mostly self found and self designed (shitty) build that I can't get enough of playing

I have spent a good 85% of my play time derping in 73-76 maps, 95% of which I buy because even though I have decent luck at good gear drops I can't get a 73+ map to drop in a 100+ iiq 75 map. I get grottos in 75 maps like finding water in a river, probably gotten 500+ grotto drops, never had a 75/76 drop, very few 73/74 drops, can count them on one hand. RNG is a strange beast in this game.

Those are insanely good item drops for 600 hours of playtime. 1 Drillneck per hundred hours of playtime? Wow.

They all came in a burst in about a 15 hour period, all from rogue exiles, all in archives while farming midnights.